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- HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -11/+118Dude, all women say that.
- wjadams, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54I feel for her...I really do...but how would you like to be the husband of that woman..yikes!
"Honey, remember when you said I looked fat in a dress 10 years ago"
"No"
"Well you did, I'm still mad at you"
"Fantastic"
Poor guy. - smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -19/+46Reminds me of the story about the old American Indian that could tell you what he had for breakfast 45 years ago. I first saw him in 1975, and he told me that he had eggs for breakfast 45 years ago. I thought it was amazing. My friends all told me, though, that it was a hoax. Saw him again last week, and greeted him with the traditional Indian greeting...
Me: "How."
Him: "Over Easy." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27does she remember being born? lets hear about it
- srhking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
Anyone who saw "The Real Rain Man" on channel 5 in the UK will recognise this guy. No idea if the show was on in other countries. This guy is supposedly the only savant to can actually peice the information together and make connections between them rather than just remmbering them.
They showed him reading a book, he reads the left page with his left eye and right with his right eye. Takes him an average of 8 seconds before he has to turn the page iirc.
"He can recall some 9,600 books from memory." - JackCroww, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Scientology troll; don't read it!
- rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14seems like i remember another case like that, the guy could hardly talk because he had so much on his mind.
- Grimmeh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13The ariticle is a bit short, and doesn't mention that she remembers *everything*.
- todd.h, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12What's the big deal? My wife can tell you the exact date and time of everything I've ever done wrong.
- charminggeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8There's quite a bit more about "AJ" at MSNBC via the Orange County Register
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808527/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Couldn't anyone say they had eggs 45 years ago with some accuracy?
- andyatkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow, this is the exact opposite of what I have.
- freexe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Didn't the guy that "Rain Man" was loosly based on have a super memory. He can remember the words on pages of a book he has read. Studies have shown that he doesn't just remember everything as well, he actually understands the story as well.
Last I heard, he has grown a passion for music, and is extremly good at it. - NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There's a classic "Lone Gunamn" (spin-off of X-Files) episode where there's this Mr. Memory guy. Same thing as this lady. The best part comes when the lead characters find Mr. Memory with some evidence of a murder.
JIMMY: Dude, you rock! I caught your act once. Hey, do you remember me?
MR MEMORY: Cerveza Sammy's... Hicksville, Long Island... April 4, 1999, 8 o'clock show. You had a bunch of blind guys with you.
JIMMY: I asked you three questions.
MR MEMORY: Completed passes thrown by Joe Nameth, 72 season, 162.
JIMMY: On the money.
MR MEMORY: Total number of episodes of the TV series 'The Man From Atlantis' starring Patrick Duffy, 17.
JIMMY: You're the king.
MR MEMORY: Yeah, and, oh yeah, who would win in a fair fight: Han Solo or Indiana Jones?
JIMMY: You never got that one.
CAROL STRODE: Sir, what can you tell us about this man?
(She shows him a photo of Jeff Strode.)
MR MEMORY: He got murdered here. That's all I know about it. Really.
JIMMY: Can I see that again?
(He looks at the photo then at MR MEMORY.)
JIMMY: Where'd you get those glasses?
MR MEMORY: I don't recall.
(BEAT)
MR MEMORY: All right, I found them behind the john. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You had French Toast. I was watching.
- riskable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Remembering everything wouldn't be so bad if you could turn off the associated emotional response. For instance, it wouldn't be so bad to remember the date of a loved ones death if you could state it matter-of-fact style without also remembering the emotional anguish. Usually when you remember something that clearly you also conjure up the strong emotion associated with it.
Strong emotions result in strong memories because of the chemical process they unleash in the brain. This woman probably has her brain permanently fixed in that state. This is different from male savants who generally get their extreme memories from having disconnected hemispheres of their brains--forcing them to re-allocate portions of their brain for their non-biologically-intended purpose. Such as using the right frontal lobe to process math instead of the left... Giving them the ability to visualize numbers or view them as physical objects and calculate geometrically.
There's a lot of power we can unleash in our brains, but it will probably be quite some time before we can just flip a switch (either chemically or via implants) and start calculating like a computer.
-Riskable
"I have a license to kill -9" - serra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I can only imagine how much this would suck, especially if you've had a bad life. I would hate to remember everything clearly, ugh.
- tetranz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A week or so ago on the Science Channel they "Brainman" about a British guy.
http://science.discovery.com/convergence/brainman/brainman.html
He is unusual among Savants in that he is "normal" in terms of his ability to communicate etc and describe what's going on in his head. He says he sees numbers as different shapes. The program had him demonstrating his extraordinary mathematics ability. He quoted PI to 20,000 places etc but the most impressive thing was his ability to learn languages. He went to Iceland and, after a week, was fluently conversing in Icelandic on live TV having never studied the language before. According to the program, Icelandic is considered a particularly difficult language for foreigners to learn. - drpsycho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It would be useful if you could turn it on and off. But remembering absolutely everything? Bleah. Some things shouldn't be remembered. That's why I'm an alcoholic. :^)
- arnar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ezkiel: Why would you need language to structure memories? One can remember things such as how a person looks, texture of stuff, smell etc. with more detail than you could put in words.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg doesn't allow italics.
Think of it like being in a loud bar. When you lean over and yell in your date's ear, that's not shouting. It's whispering. - everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4prosecution: '...And for my first eye witness in this case, i call to the stand miss AJ.'
defence: '*****!' - residentweevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'll digg it just for referring to a 40 year old as a "young woman."
- olegk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5she should play PRO poker or something
- spliznork, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15Why all the shouting in the headline?
- arnar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I bet most people who were alive during the moon landing remember where they were and what they were doing
- wicketr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I went to high school with a guy that could remember just about everything. He was famous for knowning everyone's schedule for every year that they'd been there. He'd take 15 seconds to look over their schedule and he remembered it forever.
I had forgotten my 8th grade schedule and he could remember it exactly 4 years later without even really thinking about it. He was kind of weird though. Definitely autistic, but could function perfectly normal. - tacom8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i knew a girl like this.. then she got drunk and smaked her head.. it was all over from there.. Serious perfect photographic memory gone after a night of drinking a damn shame it was..
- shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, this is why we forget. Truth is, our minds have the ability to remember everything, and in fact do. It's our unwillingness to use our memories (for reasons like you gave) that end up with us having no desire to do so.
Memory is like a muscle. You have to exercise it (and want to exercise it) for it to be strong. If you have no desire to remember, it will go lame. - Boscolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is untrue. Every year in psychology class at my high school, a video is shown about a man who does that very same thing. He can remember strings of hundreds of numbers and recite them back. He can recall any conversation word for word from years ago. That woman is not the only known case!
It was awhile ago since I was in high school, so I can't remember the guy's name. - er0k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Hyperthymestic syndrome can easily be cured with a nice fat joint ^_^
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Apparently, this man had a memory so perfect that he could recall every minute of his life in graphic detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shereshevskii - bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Leonard Nimoy claims that he can remember being in the womb. Seriously. The dude says he recalls it being like a warm, wet free-fall through space. Bizarre yet, who can disprove him?
As SIRPLUS said, marrying this woman would be suicide. You'd never win an argument and before long, she'd have you believing anything she conjured up. She'd just look at you and say, "Who they gonna believe? You or me, Mrs.Memory?"
:-( - blueangel5383, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"spent more than five years studying the case of "AJ,"" ..... which means they prolly been keeping records
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"McGaugh said AJ's case differs from others with superior memory. Nearly all recorded cases involve males"
- soupisgoodfood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's the beef? The article doesn't really say much. I want my digg back :( But I guess that's what I get for digging before following the link.
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your burial shows that, unfotunately, not enough diggers have read 1984.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2^ Replying from above, I saw that show, the 'Human Calculator' met a man in Salt Lake city library. He reads alot of books and he knows everything. They guy asks:
I was born on January 4th, 1979... The guy says It was a Tuesday immediatly. This guy knew every state, every city, the names of every road in a city, the reasurants in the city, population, he can name each US rep, each country and city in the world. He reads books constantly, 5-9 seconds for each page, once done, he remembers everything of every book he has read.
This is pretty cool aswell, +Digg - danl_4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I knew a guy once who, whenever he met someone new, would ask them what their birthday was. He would then give you a complete description of what he did that day. On my birthday (20-something years ago), he says it was a nice day outside, but his mom called him to say that she was sick, so he couldn't enjoy it. Go figure.
- AngelGirl0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just about everyone can do this if they try hard enough. Remembering daily activities big deal. I mean who cares if you remember that you ate a bag of potato chips and a beer while watching an Episode of I Love Lucy where she's in the chocolate factory the day it aired for the first time so many years back. Relevant info? Maybe to the woman remembering it but not to anyone else.
I actually have almost the same "problem" as her. That's why I tell people not to show me numbers or passwords because I will not be able to forget them. Because for some reason my brain will memorize data and associate it with that person for future reference. I also have a knack for remembering information that is interesting to me personally. If its something I'm not interested in I'll forget it. My memory isn't 100% perfect because of that... but its good to be selective in what you remember. Like our hard drives in our computer if you kept all the junk (had a ham and cheese sandwich on whatever day at whatever hour while doing whatever, etc) we'd be wasting precious space. I don't believe that the human brain is an endless storage source... makes me wonder since she doesn't have a mechanism for selective storage is her brain capable of selective discarding of info when her brain is full of junk information?
When I was in school if I looked at a page long enough I could actually recall what the page looked like and read off the page. No kidding. Its almost like our brains with practice can snap pictures of things like pages books if we are good enough at it.
Yes its kind of annoying especially when you want to forget a bad event. But I think of it as more of a gift.
Everyone has the potential to turn their brains into human "hard drives" so to speak. It just takes a lot of practice and hard work which many are not willing to do. And for a while it'll seem like you're not improving but like exercising your other parts of your body - it takes a long time sometimes to get results.
Though the most helpful way to remember stuff is to find a trick to remembering it... and make it fun. - rhnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Read it today in the toronto star
- sTiVo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This case reminds me of the "Human Calculator" guy.
- theclar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw the show that Marilu Henner talked about her memory. The date in question was the day of the moon landing in 1969
- mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Intersting article that had the potential to be even more interesting if it didn't read in 3 seconds.
- shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You actually hit the reason why we forget right on the head. It's human nature to avoid painful stuff. One form of avoidness is to "forget about it". Problem is, the stuff still lies there, effecting you, but now that it is "forgotten", we can't quite put our finger on what is that's still not right.. and then become at effect to it. Ultimately, we have to face-down these things to actually resolve them. Else its sort of downward spiral to more and more "forgettingness". That's the mechanism of "poor memory" at work.
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If South Park has taught me nothing else, it's that L. Ron Hubbard was totally right on with Dianetics and that whole Xenu alien thing. So, how much does it cost to become clear again? $100,000? Then the Operating Thetan stuff... what, like $500,000 for the whole deal? Sounds like a bargain, as far as eternal salvation goes. Oh, and also, you're insane.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmm, wonder what she'd say if you asked her, "Describe your birth."
- sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4do not marry this woman.
- shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There are many documented cases of folks recalling birth.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could totally use her for those memory minigames that video games love to use. Mario Bros. 3, here I come!
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